[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4290 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4290

  To amend title V of the Trade Act of 1974 to add to the eligibility 
  criteria for the Generalized System of Preferences full cooperation 
with the United States in preventing illegal drug traffic and the entry 
                of illegal drugs into the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 1996

   Mr. Brown of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title V of the Trade Act of 1974 to add to the eligibility 
  criteria for the Generalized System of Preferences full cooperation 
with the United States in preventing illegal drug traffic and the entry 
                of illegal drugs into the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 502(b)(2) 
of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2462(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following:
                    ``(H) Such country fails to cooperate fully with 
                the United States in preventing illegal drug traffic 
                and the entry of illegal drugs into the United 
                States.''; and
            (2) in the last sentence by striking ``and (G)'' and 
        inserting ``(G), and (H)''.
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